Stage 11 of the Vuelta a España was an action-packed Andorran epic, with no fewer than six hefty climbs crammed into 138 kilometres. Mikel Landa (Astana) was the winner on the day, with teammate Fabio Aru moving into the lead on GC, while Chris Froome lost a stack of time and many others suffered on the brutal terrain.
Fabio Aru (Astana), who moved into the overall lead
“The team was incredible today. This morning we agreed that Landa would go for the stage and he managed to get into the right break and went on to win what was a really difficult stage.
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“I’ve got to thank the whole team who worked for me. [Alessandro] Vanotti, [Diego] Rosa, [Dario] Cataldo, [Andrey] Zeits and Luis León [Sánchez] all did some incredible work for me. It was a real demonstration of strength and I’m really happy to be in the leader’s jersey. There’s still 10 stages to go and so we’ll take things day by day but we’ll try to defend it.”
Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin), who lost his red leader's jersey to Aru
"I suffered. I spent too much energy on the downhill of the 4th climb because I was putting my rain jacket on. I lost some positions and I was behind a gap in front of me, and I couldn’t close it. That was really a mistake, I lost some energy there and that was not necessary.
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